ARRHENIUS-CONTROLLED FLUID FLOW OVER A SUPERHYDROPHOBIC MICROCHANNEL WITH SYMMETRIC WALL CONCENTRATION
Keywords:
Mass flow, Symmetric wall concentration, Arrhenius kinetics, Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), Superhydrophobic Microchannel.Abstract
This paper demonstrates the effect of wall concentration on a magnetized heat and mass transfer
flow affected by Arrhenius kinetics in a slit microchannel. One of the parallel plates is intentionally modified
to have a superhydrophobic surface (SHS), while the other plate has a no-slip surface (NSS). The nonlinear
ordinary differential equations are treated with the regular perturbation method. The actions of key
parameters controlling the flow behavior in terms of momentum and energy distributions are illustrated
graphically. The present study is valid for the limiting case because it is based on a comparison with earlier
studies that back it up. It was revealed that the existence of symmetric wall concentration substantially
influences flow development and reversal. This research will have applications relevant to cracking in
petrochemical engineering, chemical synthesis, anti-wetting micro-technology, etc.
